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The era of buying a new phone every year is over. That, and each year, new phone iterations aren’t all too different from the last.

This was bound to happen.

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The game: looking for a new job without your boss finding out

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Hmm…

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It thought this was the new Vatican DLC for Civ VI when I saw the image, lol

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Father Justin agrees, then sends Apostles to each of your cities and coverts them.

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[ Ghandi enters the chat ]

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Just another example of journalism, ignoring the science and content of their own articles and going for Clickbait headlines instead.

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The wonders of banning iPhones

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It may be running SLED, but just imagine all the specialized, tweaked af code running on top. They didn’t just pop in a LiveCD and click “Install”.

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Of course. I was obviously referring to what it takes to operate it after that. Not to mention how complicated setting that whole mess up is.

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In the late 80s and early 90s

Hold up there… HTLM wasn’t even invented until 1991 by Timothy Berners-Lee who then made the first web server, web browser, and web page. It was another two or three years before browsing the web became more common. Before then, the internet was very basic, consisted of a few simple services, and was typically only accessible via universities and large corporations.

Regular people often only had access to regional online services until national services like CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL came along.

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The internet existed pre-web. Email, Usenet, IRC, Archie, etc. the real difference between ARPANET and the Internet was the introduction of TCP/IP packet handling and CIX which unified ISPs, but those both came pre-1991.

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I may not be very familiar with how the Italian Parliament works, but how many votes do “cars” get? Are they taxpayers? Do they have some kind of pull with Il Papa?

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“Capitalism has this HUGE THING in common with COMMUNISM! Your MAGAt hat (made in Jina!) will Never Be The Same!”

/checkmate

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Get caught? Call Bob Loblaw and check out Blob Loblaw’s Law Blog!

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But it doesn’t contain tobacco (at the time of delivery) and isn’t electronic.

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Bongs aren’t electronic. That’s, seemingly, the line in the law.

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The vaporizer is electronic

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The vaporizer isn’t electronic?

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I suppose it’s an oversight in the law then

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I understand that. As you can see by the other comment I left, I think it’s just an oversight in the law.

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Welcome to the printing press

”BUY MORE JESUS!”

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Another benefit to this is that the USB port goes into a restricted mode that only allows for charging, and you can still use your cameras to record while it’s in this mode.

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On iPhones, if you have Face ID enabled, pressing the power button 5 times puts in lockdown mode. This disables the usb port, Face ID, contactless payments, and requires the 6-digit pin to unlock everything. I don’t know if android phones have something similar.

It’s a neat trick for when you think you might get into a “situation”. Also, the cameras still work.

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That’s the thing about lockdown mode— it’s super-quick to enable of you get into a situation, and you can still use your device with it turned on to, for example, video record an incident that will live-stream or sync to the cloud for later remote retrieval.

And with the usb port disabled, the cops won’t be extracting anything.

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I have been for years. It was a massive improvement when I deleted my Facebook account.

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You’re making their point for them

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And what about the long road it takes to get to everyone’s needs being met? How will you ever get to that point? It doesn’t just happen overnight.

That may be no reason to do shit like that once everyone’s needs are being met, but there will be until you get to that point, and because of that, there’s no reason to think you would.

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And the stock dropped again, currently at 22.74, lol

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because anything that hurts the feelings of the Christo-nazis (eg, facts, science, etc.) is "harmful to children". it's just 21st-century book burning.

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i've been testing not using windows ever again. since 2004.

it's great.

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Ad Guard works for me

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Twitter IS a technology company.

If you don’t like the content posted here, there are other technology communities, or you can create your own.

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oh, look, Krakow has a Williamsburg. I wonder how much rents shot up after it got all gentrified.

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Which is ironic, because now everyone will be looking at those ugly Crocs the person is wearing.

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The vast majority of crime committed by the public (that is, by individuals, not by corporations who actually commit the vast majority of crime, typically against the workers in the form of wage theft) is a symptom of poverty, especially generational poverty. Without launching into 10 or 12 paragraphs explaining the systematic effects of this, the best way to reduce crime is to reduce poverty in the general population. give people stable homes, stable incomes, and stable education, and crime plummets. Populations with low poverty, and where people have generally stable lives and stable incomes have low crime rates. Easy access to medical care and strong, social safety nets reduce crime even further because they reduce the desperation people encounter when they fall into poverty.

Also, increasing easy access to abortion also has a prominent effect on reducing crime.

Edit: btw, more info about corporate crime and wage theft:

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/15aefb40-c79a-4795-8b2c-614c8ffa14ab.webp

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Cops don’t prevent crime, not in any significant way. Their job is to enforce the law, typically by responding after a crime has already occurred. Because they are trained to primarily respond with force and to believe any and every thing in existence absolutely will try to kill them at any moment, and to treat everyone the encounter as guilty and sources for incriminating information, they act as hammers treating everyone as a nail. They are dangerous, paranoid thugs never to be trusted.

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Longhorn (pre-reset) was my last version of windows back in 2004. after that mess, i refused to ever go back.

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i know.

fyi, WindowsXP was codenamed "Whistler". Windows 7 was originally codenamed "Blackcomb", but that codename was later dropped. Windows Home Server 2011 was codenamed "Vail".

the MS team has a history of using ski resorts and related names as codenames for windows betas.

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Whistler Blackcomb was the name of a resort that the Windows design team used to on retreat to. They would also go elsewhere, as I’m sure you can guess…

Windows 11 was codenamed “Sun Valley”

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Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

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I’ve always loved my Apple TVs.

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Leave FB for a better, happier life, buddy

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i replaced mine with random gibberish. several times. over the course of a week.

then i deleted them

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Here’s a novel concept: just ask the question here. I can provide the same answer I did on Reddit, now with the benefit of many more years’ worth of knowledge and experience.

Whether or not, you can access my old answer from many years ago instantly via Google is not a concern for me. I didn’t put that comment on Reddit many years ago for your personal convenience, And complaining about it now sounds more than a little bit entitled. If you wanna be mad at anyone, be mad at Reddit for shitting all over the free content, the users provided by taking advantage of them.

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Your failure to provide a reliable source for your claims is not my problem.

If you cannot provide a reliable source of your claims, your claim will be dismissed.

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Your failure to provide a reliable source for your claims is not my problem.

If you cannot provide a reliable source of your claims, your claim will be dismissed.

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Your failure to provide a reliable source for your claims is not my problem.

If you cannot provide a reliable source of your claims, your claim will be dismissed.

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Your failure to provide a reliable source for your claims is not my problem.

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